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"It consisted of three lines written an hour or two before she died: 'Jolene K. came over and i showed her how to make a cherry pie. Practiced with Roxie. Bobby here and we watched TV. Left at eleven.'" Pg 84. He could have Nancy's actual diary.

"They were denied the chance, for Mr. Clutter, an abstainer aggressively opposed to drink and drunkards, seized a gun and marched them off his property. This discourtesy the Johns had not forgiven; as recently as a month ago, John Senior had told an acquaintance." Pg. 86 This isn't credible because we don't know how the interaction went down and who the acquaintance is.

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Probably Fiction: "After drinking the glass of milk and putting on a fleece lined cap, Mr. Clutter carried his apple with him when he went out-doors to examine the morning." Since Mr. Clutter was alone in this scene, there remains no way to verify what he was eating or drinking at this time, nor whether he was in fact wearing a fleece lined cap. Even in the unlikely scenario in which this scene came from the memory of an undisclosed eyewitness, that they would surely not know whether or not the cap was fleece lined.
Probably Fact:  "At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign —DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building with an irrelevant sign, this one in flaking gold on a dirty window—HOLCOMB BANK. The bank closed in 1933, and its former counting rooms have been converted into apartments. It is one of the town’s two 'apartment houses,' the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. But the majority of Holcomb’s homes are one-story frame affairs, with front porches." Since these are simply descriptions of the town of Holcomb that would be easily verifiable, I deem this passage to be reliable information.

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" Dick drank three Orange Blossoms. After the third, he abruptly asked, "What about Dad? I feel oh Jesus, He's such a good old guy. And my mother well you saw her. What about them? Me I'll be off in Mexico. Or wherever. But they'll be right here when those checks start to bounce. I know Dad. He'll want to make them good. Like he tried to before. And he cant he's old and he's sick, He ain't got anything"" There is no way he knew the exact drink how many and every word he said after the 3rd one because the only witness he could ask were probably drunk.

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Pg: 9 "As a consequence, it was well after seven when he awakened on Saturday, November 14, 1959. His wife always slept as late as possible."
There is no way for the author to know when Mr. Clutter had awoken on that day. Being that Mr. Clutter was the first person up in the morning.
FAX
Pg: 3 "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there.'"
This is very obviously true because Holcomb is a place, which Truman would have visited and seen first hand.

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fiction: pg 96 "on the unreasonably warm day about 600 persons went..."
facts: The kansas city star printed a lengthly account of the clutter funeral" This part is most likly true, but this part, "the article was two days old before perry, lying in bed got to reading it"

fiction pg 100 : The thought painfully passed for dick with a wink and a playful jab, said, "sure honey im with you all the way"

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False: At the beginning of page  21, Susan and Nancy have a phone call. Truman Capote  wrote specific quotes from Nancy and Susan. Even though Susan was interviewed for the book, she probably couldnt give exact quotes. "Im not sure it me whos making him grouchy. Something else-hes really worried about something." They also get into the clothes of Dick and Perry, which i dont think could be remembered.
True: On Page 23 It follows Dick and Perry going to Kansas and the journey there. Everyone knows that they had to go through Kansas to reach Holcomb. This could easily be recorded.

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"My Wife can't sleep and she won't allow me. So I told Mr. McCoy I like his place fine but he better hunt up another man." This is something too detailed to make up.

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Fiction(72) The author talks about how both Larry and Bobby ignore the dinner bell, and how bobby was ignoring Larry. And then Bobby started walking down the roads to the fields, and Larry tried to stop Bobby and take the car ad he wouldn't listen. This information is much too specific for the author to actually know, nobody would know what conversation the brothers had before getting in the car.
Real(74) Author talks about how Dicks dad didnt know Dick was tired because of how he drove over 800 miles in the past 24 hours. This is definitely real information because if we know the addresses of where everything happened, we would know statistics of distances and timing as well.

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Truth: During the 4-H club meeting at the country club, Capote describes the words of Mr. Clutter towards the newer resident of Holcomb, the Ashidas. We can assume this is something this actually happened because this may have been something that Mrs. Hideo Ashida recalled.
Fiction: I believe the part where Kenyon and Nancy were painting a chest and talking could have been partially made up because how would Capote know what they were saying and doing in the basement when it was only the family who died in the house.

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pg 60 fact: "Larry Hendricks, a teacher of English, aged twenty-seven, lived on top floor of the Teacher-age"
pg 66 Cap: "I saw Kenyons old collie. and that dog was scared. Stood there with its tail between it's legs, didn't bark or move." - this seems like something the author made up to make the story more dramatic.

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Dick was wearing a blue jumper suit, lettering
stitched across the back advertising Bob Sand's Body Shop. I think this description is true because it says dick has been employed there since his release from prison.

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"The time was ten past six, and the agent was anxious to go." I think this is fiction because it's suspicious to remember the exact time.

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Believable:
Capote says that there was a hundred thousand dollars worth of grain in the silo. and that was almost four thousands time more than Mr.clutter's salary in 1934. I think that could have been found in his  investigation.

Not Believable:
Capote says that as Mr.Clutter walked alone to his livestock corral and that his dog joined him and walked there. Capote would not have been able to know if this happened.

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His wife once said “my husband cares more for those trees than he does for his children” and everyone in holcomb recalled the day a small disabled plane crashed into the peach trees.

Facts

He did know the ins and outs of hunting gold, having been taught by his father who was a professional prospector

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Fiction: "The garden city representative of New York Life Insurance smiled as he watched Mr. Clutter uncap a Parker pen and open a checkbook." This is too much detail to remember.
Real: "Herb was hard-headed, a slow man to make a deal." This is believable because it's a trait.

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Fact: Bobby’s lie detector test seems like a reliable source of information. The quotation is very specific, to the point where it almost has to be true. Bobby describes his visit to the Clutter’s house realistically.

Fiction: Truman Capote writes that “The travelers stopped for dinner at a restaurant in Great Bend. Perry, down to his last fifteen dollars, was ready to settle for root beer and a sandwich, but Dick said no, they needed a solid ‘tuck-in’ and never mind the cost, the tab was his” (Capote 53). There’s no possible way that Capote anticipated this conversation at a restaurant in Great Bend.

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Fiction: The dialogue between Bobby and his brother on pg 72 is probably not actually what happened, although Bobby could recite that he went to their house, so that's probably real

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Fiction: "They were very attentive to the hygiene and condition of their fingernails." I think this is fiction because it is a bizarre minimal detail that seems made up because it's not something someone would say or notice when talking about a murder.
Truth: "The distance between Olathe, a suburb of Kansas City, and Holcomb, which might be called a suburb of Garden City, is approximately 400 miles." This is a pretty random fact, but it is the sort of fact that would be weird if it wasn't true.

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Sam Ismailer: Fiction: Page 112 Perry talks about how King would read junk, comic books and cowboy junk. That is just an opinion and could easily be misinterpreted. There is no factual evidence backing that the books are junk.

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Sam Ismailer: Fiction: Page 112 Perry talks about how King would read junk, comic books and cowboy junk. That is just an opinion and could easily be misinterpreted. There is no factual evidence backing that the books are junk.

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Cap: It was three in the morning, and the telephone rang again. On answering the present call, Dewey immediately heard, "I want to confess"
Truth: "Alvin, are you lighting another cigarette." Honestly, Alvin, you can't at least try and sleep.

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On pg 52, Capote talks about Dick and Perry going to a restaurant and adds details like them ordering two medium-rare steaks with only $15 in their pocket. There isn't a way for Capote to know this level of detail and there is no mention of an interview so it must be false.

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he drinks a 3.2 beer he rememberd the ounce thats fishy

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Fiction: Perry is retelling a story of how he killed a black man out in Vegas by the name of King. Yet Dick knows this story of Perry's to be a lie and calls Perry out as a liar, challenging him on his story. Thus I believe this section containing Perry's story is a work of fiction.

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When Bobby describes his last visit to the Clutter's house on pg 51, we know it's true because his details are from an interview shortly after.

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remembering the narrow frontier trousers and high heel boots is to exact

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Fiction: "He was wearing a Tshirt and blue jeans." I think that this exact piece of information just wouldn't be remembered.
Truth: "After a bit, ambulances arrived." This is a reasonable thing to happen and remember after a family was murdered.

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Truman Capote, original name Truman Streckfus Persons, (born September 30, 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.-died August 25, 1984, Los Angeles, California), American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood (1965; film 1967), which, together with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; film 1961), remains his best-known work.

His parents were divorced when he was young, and he spent his childhood with various elderly relatives in small towns in Louisiana and Alabama. (He owed his surname to his mother's remarriage, to Joseph Garcia Capote.) He attended private schools and eventually joined his mother and stepfather at Millbrook, Connecticut, where he completed his secondary education at Greenwich High School.

Capote drew on his childhood experiences for many of his early works of fiction. Having abandoned further schooling, he achieved early literary recognition in 1945 when his haunting short story "Miriam" was published in Mademoiselle magazine; the following year it won the O. Henry Memorial Award, the first of four such awards Capote was to receive. His first published novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), was acclaimed as the work of a young writer of great promise. The book is a sensitive, partly autobiographical portrayal of a boy's search for his father and his own sexual identity through a nightmarishly decadent Southern world. The short story "Shut a Final Door" (O. Henry Award, 1946) and other tales of loveless and isolated individuals were collected in A Tree of Night, and Other Stories (1949). The quasi-autobiographical novel The Grass Harp (1951) is a story of nonconforming innocents who temporarily retire from life to a tree house, returning renewed to the real world. One of Capote's most popular works, Breakfast at Tiffany's, is a novella about Holly Golightly, a young fey café society girl; it was first published in magazine in 1958 and then as a book, with several other stories.

Capote's increasing preoccupation with journalism was reflected in his nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, a chilling account of the murders of four members of the Clutter family, committed in Kansas in 1959. Capote began researching the murders soon after they happened, and he spent six years interviewing the two men who were eventually executed for the crime. (That time included months spent in Kansas with his friend, childhood neighbour, and fellow novelist Harper Lee, who served as his "assistant researchist.") In Cold Blood first appeared as a series of articles in 1965 inThe New Yorker; the book version was published that same year. Its critical and popular success pushed Capote to the forefront of the emerging New Journalism, and it proved to be the high point of his dual careers as a writer and a celebrity socialite. Endowed with a quirky but attractive character, he entertained television audiences with outrageous tales recounted in his distinctively high-pitched lisping Southern drawl.

Capote's later writings never approached the success of his earlier ones. In the late 1960s he adapted two short stories about his childhood, "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor," for television. The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Spaces (1973) consists of collected essays and profiles over a 30-year span, while the collection Music for Chameleons: New Writing (1980) includes both fiction and nonfiction. In later years Capote's growing dependence on drugs and alcohol stifled his productivity. Moreover, selections from a projected work that he considered to be his masterpiece, a social satire entitled Answered Prayers, appeared in Esquire in 1975-76 and raised a storm among friends and foes who were harshly depicted in the work (under the thinnest of disguises). He was thereafter ostracized by his former celebrity friends. The book, which had not been completed at the time of his death, was published as Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel in 1986. Summer Crossing, a short novel that Capote wrote in the 1940s and that was believed lost, was published in 2006.

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Truman Capote, original name Truman Streckfus Persons, (born September 30, 1924, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.-died August 25, 1984, Los Angeles, California), American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose early writing extended the Southern Gothic tradition, though he later developed a more journalistic approach in the novel In Cold Blood (1965; film 1967), which, together with Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958; film 1961), remains his best-known work.